Author: New York (N.Y.). Mercantile Library Association
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Systematic Catalogue of Books in the Collection of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York
Author: New York (N.Y.). Mercantile Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Systematic Catalogue of Books in the Collection of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York
Author: New York (N.Y.). Mercantile Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Sciences and arts
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Reading Publics
Author: Tom Glynn
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s reading publics had access to a range of “public libraries” as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public and promoted the public good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, while others required a membership or an annual subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive collections. What all the public libraries of this period had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, orderly republic—that good reading promoted the public good. Tom Glynn’s vivid, deeply researched history of New York City’s public libraries over the course of more than a century and a half illuminates how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and reading helped construct social identities and how print functioned within and across groups, including but not limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican and liberal values, shifting understandings of “public” and “private,” and the debate over fiction influenced the development and character of New York City’s public libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of New York City that firmly places the city’s early public libraries within the history of reading and print culture in the United States.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s reading publics had access to a range of “public libraries” as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public and promoted the public good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, while others required a membership or an annual subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive collections. What all the public libraries of this period had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, orderly republic—that good reading promoted the public good. Tom Glynn’s vivid, deeply researched history of New York City’s public libraries over the course of more than a century and a half illuminates how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and reading helped construct social identities and how print functioned within and across groups, including but not limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican and liberal values, shifting understandings of “public” and “private,” and the debate over fiction influenced the development and character of New York City’s public libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of New York City that firmly places the city’s early public libraries within the history of reading and print culture in the United States.
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Since the Large Catalogue of 1835
Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Catalogue of the American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi. [With] Catalogue of the Canadian and other British North American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi [and] Catalogue of the Mexican and other Spanish American & West Indian books in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856 [and] Catalogue of the American maps in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856
Author: Henry Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ...
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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